From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 10:38:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0388037B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:38:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-one.net (adsl-65-71-135-137.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 208CA43EC2 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:38:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea [192.168.0.3]) by sage-one.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id gBFIcDK02276; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:38:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20021215123813.012c4b88@mail.sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@mail.sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:38:13 -0600 To: dick hoogendijk , freebsd-questions From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: Clone FreeBSD Partition In-Reply-To: <20021215103044.GA18795@nagual.st> References: <200212142217.gBEMHkEq014939@peedub.jennejohn.org> <20021214124320.GA15363@nagual.st> <200212142217.gBEMHkEq014939@peedub.jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:30 AM 12.15.2002 +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote: >On Dec 14 Gary wrote: >> dick hoogendijk writes: >>> What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning? > >> I just made the comment re: inode-per-inode because AFAIK that's the >> way dump/restore will work. > >Ok w/ me. Don't know too much the ins-and-outs of backup progs yet, so I >was (am) curious about the (dis)advantages of the most well-known-ones. >People always mention dump/restore.. > >> I'm not aware of an advantage or disadvantage to using dump/restore >> (except for restoring from tape) > >Hmmm, I don't have a tape-unit unfortunately. Always clone to another >harddive. Not quite sure what you mean right here. > Dick: You don't have to use Tapes. Check a little closer. Dump/restore works very, very well from HD to HD. Makes bootable backups and is the one I trust the most with my data and files system backups. "dd" is good for "Ghost-like" image..... makes a bootable as well although you may have to run fsck to boot up.... Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message